New Money

When your money makes you money
What's the well-to-do to do?
But buy another pony
With the interest they accrue?
While right across the bay
They're making fortunes on the go
Over there, the rich are "riche"
And the money is nouveau

Oh, the nouveau riche are reaching
For the scepter of the kings
And somewhere high above us
You've got Gatsby pullin' strings
Faster and faster, no slowin 'em down
Lucky boy, you got the hottest ticket in town
A whole new ruling party
And your neighbor wears the crown

New money
Young, rich and wild
Reveled, reviled
You can't stop that new money
Fillin' your pockets
Spend it while you got it
Heaven knows if it'll last

(New money)
Watch it as it goes
(New money)
Watch it as it go, go, goes
(New, new money)
Ba-da, ba-ba-ba

In West Egg there's no nest egg (oh, oh, oh, oh)
No need to sit and brood (oh, oh, oh)
On piles of cash they spend their stash at (oh, oh, oh, oh)
A shocking magnitude

The kind of wealth you gotta see to believe (oh)
A level of luxury that's hard to achieve (oh)
No, I don't wanna live here
But I never wanna leave
Oh-oh-oh

New money
Young, rich, and wild
Reveled, reviled
Don't you want that new money
Fillin' your pockets?
Spend it while you got it
Heaven knows if it'll last

(New money)
Everything top shelf
(New, new money)
Can only top itself
(New, new, new money)
Ba-da, ba-ba-ba, ba-ya
New money

High roller, comin' through
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

New money
When it's scanty
New money
Up the ante
Ooh, ooh
Butter me, honey
Tonight I'm on a roll

(Tonight I'm on a roll)
(New money)

Wolfsheim
Hey, kitten (new money)
Wanna blow on my dice? (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
Are you kidding? I wanna throw 'em

New money
Lucky sevens
New manna
From the heavens
Ooh, ooh
Butter me, honey
Tonight I'm on a roll

(New money)
Haha, who's the schoolteacher?
(New manna)
This is Nick Carraway
(New money) I see you lookin' at my cuff buttons
(New manna) finest specimens of human molars
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)

Who was that?
That's Meyer Wolfsheim
He fixed the World Series
You can meet anyone at these parties

So where do we find Gatsby? (Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Can you point him out to me? (Oh, oh, oh)
I've never even met him (oh, oh, oh, oh)
The man's a
Mystery

Every night it seems his notoriety grows
I wonder if he's even at the parties he throws?
I think that it's dandy (oh-oh-oh-oh) that he keeps a brandy handy (oh-oh-oh-oh-ohh)
But his modus operandi?
No one really knows

Well, I heard Gatsby owns the patent for the Model T
I heard he's a spy
I heard he won this place in a horse race
I heard he killed a man
He's selling bathtub gin
He's Prussian royalty
Stock market?
He's flooded
Red carpet?
Star-studded
Black market?
Cold-blooded
Do you wanna dance?

(My baby only wants new money)
Do you believe that about Mr. Gatsby?
What?
(The kind that washes up clean)
That he killed a man? Wouldn't he be in jail?
(My baby has a taste for new money)
Not if he didn't get caught
(She likes her legal slender, tender, and mean)

Well, what kind of-
Jeez
What kind of a person throws large parties he doesn't attend?

A person who likes large parties
I like large parties, they're so intimate
At small parties, there isn't any privacy

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
New money

New money
Young, rich, and wild
Reveled, reviled
Don't you want that new money
Fillin' your pockets?
Spend it while you got it

Heaven knows if it'll last
(New money)
Boats against the current
(New, new money)
Push against the tide
(New, new, new money)
We ride, we ride, we ride, we ride

New money
Young, rich, and wild
Reveled, reviled (oh)
Don't you want that new money (yeah, yeah)
Fillin' your pockets?
Spend it while you got it (woo)
Heaven knows if it'll last

I want that new money, crisp money (oh, oh, oh, oh)
Straight from the mint money
Fresh money, young money (oh, oh, oh, oh)
Push against the tide (oh, oh, oh, oh)
Hey, we ride, we ride (ride, we ride)
Don't want that old money, bling money
Comes-with-strings money
Cold money, funny money
Push against the tide
We ride, we ride, we ride

We ride
Yeah, oh